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@bergkvist/crypto-ticker
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What is this?
A command line interface for fetching the price of any cryptocurrency. It is written in NodeJs 10 (dubnium lts), and can easily be installed from the NPM package repository.
It uses the public CryptoCompare API to fetch prices.
Usage
crypto-ticker [base] [quote (default=USD)]
The first argument is the base currency. The second argument is the quote currency. None of the arguments are case sensitive.
A numeric value is returned, representing the rate of base/quote.
Install
Depending on your node installation, you might need to run this with sudo.
npm install -g @bergkvist/crypto-ticker
Examples
# Bitcoin price in Euro
$ crypto-ticker BTC EUR
3148.33
# Ethereum price in US dollars (notice that USD is default):
$ crypto-ticker eth
116.59
# It also works with fiat to fiat
# (The price of one Norwegian Krone in Japanese Yen)
$ crypto-ticker nok jpy
11.5
FAQs
CLI tool to fetch the price of any cryptocurrency
We found that @bergkvist/crypto-ticker demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 06 Feb 2019
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